Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gail Carriger

Laughter is healing and helpful and fun, and I see my role as an entertainer, and I want readers to leave my books smiling.

Zadie Smith

One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about the 'search for identity', and this is said admiringly, as if I meant to encourage such a search.

Zadie Smith

When I think of the books I love, there's always a little laughter in the dark.

William Osler

To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.

Wendi McLendon-Covey

I've got a bunch of books... I rely on funny books and movies to cheer me up. Oh, but I must say, I do have the world's most perfect husband, so a cuddle from him always cheers me up. He's a good guy.

Chuck Palahniuk

I think Chris Brown gets kind of dismissed as a gay writer, and I think Chris's books are really, really smart. I wish his books sold a little more widely.

Chuck Palahniuk

My favorite books to give or get are short story collections. And always paperbacks because they are easy to carry as you travel.

Yann Martel

It's true, too, that I'm tired of using books as political bullets and grenades. Books are too precious and wonderful to be used for long in such a fashion.

Chris Bohjalian

I think the most important lesson isn't necessarily to try and write a different book every time, or to try and brand yourself and write one specific kind of book, but to write the kind of books you love to read.

Gina Bellman

I eat tons, three full meals a day, and I never go to the gym. When I was a child, my geography teacher said, 'You may be slim now but if you carry on eating like that, you'll end up being really fat.' Fortunately, I really don't think I've changed much in the past two decades, so that teacher was an idiot.

Wendelin Van Draanen

My mission as a writer is to give my readers hope to carry with them, and to promote a belief that they can do anything they set their minds to.

Virginia Postrel

Fit experts envision a future in which you'd carry your body scan in your cell phone or on a thumb drive, using the data to order clothes online or find them in stores. But who's going to pay for all those scanners, which cost about $35,000 each, and the staff to run them?

Billy Graham

While I have never learned to use a computer, I am surrounded by family and friends who carry information to me from blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and various websites.

Constance Wu

I feel like I could carry a movie or a show, and I'll mess up here and there, and I'll learn from those things.

Jack Anderson

The police chief works directly for the city manager, who works for the city council, so there is a direct line between city council goals for public safety and the law enforcement and safety professionals who carry out those goals,

Jiao Yang

The police are now carrying an all-out investigation into the case. And this is only a single case.

Jorge Belevan

The pilot's skill made it possible to carry out an emergency landing and save lives.

Art Hogan

The overall passion for Internet stocks is carrying over to the index itself,

Donna Lieberman

The policy of searching thousands of subway riders daily without any suspicion that they have done anything wrong is unprecedented, unproductive and unconstitutional.

John Milton

To know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime Wisdom; what is more, is fume, Or emptiness, or fond impertinence

John Milton

To know that which before us lies in daily life is the prime wisdom.

Alice Carter

We've had daily donations (this year) since Jan. 2. We have that many regular donors.

Pete Catenacci

We're working on Kristine on a daily basis. It's rough going from a three-year starter to a new girl taking on the pitching responsibilities.

Rig Veda

We invoke the Sun God who incessantly works day and night and rises daily without showing any kind of lethargy.

Chad Lavalais

You just try to go about your daily routines. But I look at it, I don't know how to say this ... It's like the story about when the tornado touches down and all these houses go down but it skips just this one. It's one of those things you don't think about.

Brett Carney

It is easy for predators to find out interests and habits, and follow their daily movements.

Dave Healy

It is due entirely to the Big Three's unusual level of sales to daily rental fleets.

Bethany Hamilton

Life is a lot like surfing… When you get caught in the impact zone, you’ve got to just get back up. Because you never know what may be over the next wave.

Michael Panzner

We've got quadruple witching, which always has the potential to have an impact on prices.

Mark McKinnon

Technology has had more of an impact on the presidency and how the presidency communicates than anything.

Nicholas Graham

We haven't seen anything unusual or alarming. There hasn't been any impact on our members or our service.

Dave Wannstedt

I think Kevin Collier will have an opportunity to make an impact early.

Justin Gray

Man, they made some tough shots. The three-pointers can impact the game. Especially when you give them up in a row.

Barry Manilow

Everything you say and do is having an impact on others.

Simon Flannery

The quarter is likely to see a mix of positive and negative surprises, reflecting the impacts of mergers and competitive pressures respectively.

Thom McDaniels

I won't be shocked if he impacts the outcome.

Isamu Akasaki

I was overwhelmed by so many interviewers and then messages of congratulations. So many congratulation messages. I feel this shows the authority and the greatness of the Nobel Prize.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

My message to you all is hope, courage and confidence.

Charles Petzold

MIDI made a natural transition to the PC. The MIDI messages that make up a musical composition can be saved as MIDI files, which are collections of MIDI messages with timing information.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

In every crowd are certain persons who seem just like the rest, yet they bear amazing messages.

Boris Tadic

Unfortunately, today we are getting messages from the tribunal that they are not responsible. I think they are responsible for what happened.

Shirley Eaton

I don't even want to be on Twitter. I think it's abhorrent, people sending messages to say they're doing the washing-up or whatever.

David Koresh

I am more willing to come out when I get my message from my commander.

Penn Jillette

The medium is not the message - the message is the message.

Casey Kasem

If the beat gets to the audience, and the message touches them, you've got a hit.